I will answer in brief.
Hi Dave, so do I. now I think I understand the issue. It's about the
(old) open source discussion and daring to ask for money. I really don't
feel like arguing against that. What I know is that people deliver good
work when they are motivated. I see no evil in the fact that people get
paid because this can be a very good motivation. It also enables you to
spend money for things that make the product better.You also can spend
the money to train programmers so they use latest techniques and don't
do beginners faults. I don't speak for everyone involved, but: I scan
artefacts with a commercial scanner software, I process images with
Photoshop, and I use TotalCommander to organise files and put them up on
the FTP. This does not mean the images scanned and archived are less
preserved. I would not want to exchange a single tool. I enjoy using
them every single day.